Immortality Quotations

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.

Man is immortal till his work is done.

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

I believe in God and immortality.

But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.

Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.

Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh, and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.

Only youth has a taste of immortality.

Men are immortal till their work is done.

Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.

What I have done cannot be taken from me.

We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.

Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.

There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.

Tis immortality to die aspiring.

Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]

We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it is proper to speak of eternity as the attribute of God, but of immortality as the attribute of man.

One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.

Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.

It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.

But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be...

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

Immortality... Is that a super power?

There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.

Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.

I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.

I am conscious of eternal life.

I look through the grave into heaven.

I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.

The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.

One thought settles a life, an immortality.

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

A man's immortality can be found in his children.

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.

However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God , Freedom , Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy ?

Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.

But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.

The only true immortality lies in one's children.

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.

Opposition is dangerous to immortality.

I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

Twenty-one already, and I still haven't done a thing worth immortality.

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality.

Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you.